I've had enough!

[blablover5]

I have been fighting with canker sores for most of my life. It has always bothered me how people will go on and on about cold sores, what causes them, some cures/ointments to help; but canker sores are left out in the cold.

Doctors just seem to throw their hands up in to the air, flail them around and scream "We don't know nothing!"

We'll I am sick of it.

I am storming the Mayo clinic and demanding that they not only find the cause but cure these damn things.

Who's with me?

 

[apostle83]

I am storming the Mayo clinic

This will not end well!

 

[blablover5]

You've clearly never suffered the pain and suffering of a mouth full of the cursed things.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I tried to organize a fundraising campaign, but "Kisses for Canker Sores" didn't really work out.

 

[blablover5]

Unlike their much "beloved" cousins the Cold Sores canker sores aren't communicative and you can't catch them from someone else.

So break out the OraJel and kiss away.

 

[apostle83]

You've clearly never suffered the pain and suffering of a mouth full of the cursed things.

Not a mouthful, but I get one or two frequently in the winter.

 

[Lindley]

I've had to all but give up orange soda due to the things.

Not that that isn't a good thing in some ways, but it is annoying.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

Unlike their much "beloved" cousins the Cold Sores canker sores aren't communicative and you can't catch them from someone else.

So break out the OraJel and kiss away.

They're not contagious, because they're not bacterial or viral, but doctors do advise you not to kiss because bacteria from another person's mouth can get in the open sore and cause an infection.

 

[blablover5]

I've seen the most backwards advice ever. Some say that you should eat this, use this to stop them and then others say you shouldn't eat it, use it.

I say we stop this madness. Let's throw eggs at them!

 

[kimc]

I used to get them quite a bit until I cut down on meat and added more fruits and veggies.

However, storming the Mayo Clinic (where all the cute docs are) sounds like fun so I'm in!

 

[blablover5]

We'll need a keg of coffee! And possibly some hot firemen to um put out the fires we start?

 

[Squiggy]

GOD DAMNED HERPES!!!!111

 

[Triskelion]

Give up acidic foods with tomato and oranges, peppers, etc.
Don't use drinking straws.
Consider clinical hypnotherapy for stress reduction - it works. It might knock those cankers out, too, once you reduce the stomach's acidity, which is agitated by stress.
Know that having cankers means reduced chance of stomach ulcers!
Aspirin dulls the pain center of the brain, and half a one per day is good for you anyway.
Good luck, feel better.

 

[blablover5]

Mine are totally stress related. If I get sick or even kinda get sick I get one. I'll even get one or two during regular olk' endometrial sloughing time.

 

[M'Sharak]

I say we stop this madness. Let's throw eggs at them!

Eggs? Why not go all out? Launch the Pomeranians, I say!

*winds up the trusty trebuchet*

 

[blablover5]

I heard they had first made a Pomeranian-a pault but it had to be abandoned when it got clogged with hair.

 

[Trekker4747]

GOD DAMNED HERPES!!!!111

You're thinking of cold sores. Different from canker sores.

Canker sores are not related to herpes.

 

[Misfit Toy]

GOD DAMNED HERPES!!!!111

You're thinking of cold sores. Different from canker sores.

Canker sores are not related to herpes.

You're misinterpreting the reason for squiggy's hatred of herpes...

 

[RoJoHen]

I actually get these any time I eat a Snickers candy bar.

I think it's from the peanuts.

 

[M'Sharak]

I heard they had first made a Pomeranian-a pault but it had to be abandoned when it got clogged with hair.

Yeah, 1.0 was a bust. Total redesign required.

GOD DAMNED HERPES!!!!111

You're thinking of cold sores. Different from canker sores.

Canker sores are not related to herpes.

You're misinterpreting the reason for squiggy's hatred of herpes...

That happens a lot.